Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is the 1st day of Lent which concludes before the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday (Maudy Thursday). Lent has six Sundays; the final one, known as Passion (or Palm) Sunday, begins Holy Week. Starting with the Mass of the Lord's Supper (in Holy Week) through the Easter Vigil is the shortest season of the Church Year: The Sacred Triduum.

As an aside, Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday") was the day that Christians feasted before the beginning of the Lenten season, a period of prayer and fasting in which Christians preparation for Easter. Lent is when we walk with Our Lord, during those 40 days He spent praying and fasting in preparation for His Crucifixion and ultimate Resurrection on Easter Sunday

Lent is in remembrance of the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert prior to his death. He went to the desert for 40 days and 40 nights, and then came back to the city on Palm Sunday. From Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday is 40 days. The remaining 7 is in regards to the week before Easter; Holy Week.

the Ash Wednesday bushfires hit in February 1983. In Victoria, around 200,000 hectares of land were destroyed, the equivalent of twice the size of Melbourne.

South Australia was also hit by fires which broke out in the Adelaide Hills and Mt Lofty, and the Clare Valley, destroying 208,000 hectares of land in farming country and another 21,000 hectares of pine forests in the state's south-east.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, which is comprised of forty weekdays before the Easter Triduum. The Eastern Triduum begins on Holy Thursday evening with the Mass of the Lord's Supper, so forty weekdays before that is Ash Wednesday.

Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Anglicans.

To my calcultation the year was 1921 in the late 1000

A Catholic preist puts his thumb in ashes and then draws a cross on your forhead.

Oh, dude, that's easy! The Sunday after Ash Wednesday is called the First Sunday of Lent. It's like the beginning of the Lenten season, where people give up stuff like chocolate or Netflix for 40 days. So, yeah, it's a pretty big deal for those who are into that whole Lent thing.

The most infrequent date for ash Wednesday to fall on is the twenty ninth of february

Yes Ash Wednesday is mandatory for Catholics. It is considered to be a Holy day of Obligation!

Lent is a season of forty days, not counting Sundays, which begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a "mini-Easter" and the reverent spirit of Lent is tempered with joyful anticipation of the Resurrection.

yes it does

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the 46-day period (40 days not counting Sundays) of self-sacrifice that precedes Easter Sunday. Although I am unsure of the connection between Ash Wednesday and Lent and Easter, I know that at least in the Roman Catholic denomination priests draw the sign of the cross on the foreheads of Catholics on Ash Wednesday using the ashes from the burning of the palm fronds left over from the previous year's Palm Sunday as they remind them that they came from dirt and will return to dirt, which sounds like a good reason to celebrate the Resurrection, which is what Easter is all about.

ash wednesday is on the 22nd of february

A Columbarium, which contains niches to store cremated human remains.

I think yes

It is to abstain from eating meat.

Ashes are to remind us of our own mortality. The ashes that are distributed on Ash Wednesday come from the ashes of the palms from the previous Palm Sunday.

Yes you can

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it symbolize mortality,penance and mourning and it is the reminder of God to us

Both the 1983 and 2009 fires - * occured during a period of extended drought * during extreme weather conditions * after a period of relatively fire free years * spread rapidly due to spotting from gale force winds * had large fires link up to make huge fires * were in largely inaccessible areas to vehicles * caused extensive loss of life and property * destroyed entire communities * were relieved within weeks by a change to cooler weather and some rain * were considered to be the worst ever at the time * resulted in Royal Commissions The 1983 Ash Wednesday fires - * were spread over a much wider area of southeastern Australia * had the advantage of a better prepared and more mobile fire fighting force than the 1939 Black Friday fires The 2009 Black Saturday fires - * were more focussed within 200 km of Melbourne * killed many more people * had technological advantages not available in 1983 such as mobile phones and the Elvis fire fighting helicopters * had the advantage of the 1983 fires to change attitudes * as a result of the Ash Wednesday fires, had more mobile and better trained fire fighters than previously * had the advantage of the Ash Wednesday Royal Commission to prevent a recurrence of the same mistakes, to improve practices and laws, and to revolutionise the issuing of building permits and materials Something that I hope will brought to the fore during the upcoming Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires, is the interference of Green Groups in fire prevention and fuel reduction activities that would otherwise have been carried out by the responsible authorities and, why the various Municipalities failed to restrict building permits in accordance with the findings and recommendations of the Ash Wednesday Royal Commission.

when tou go to the church at school with your class and the preast puts ashs on your forehead.

it lasted about 4 days

it occurs every wednesday and one of the national parks